On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 5:36 PM, Thomas Dalton <[email protected]> wrote: > It is not good enough to just do things right, you need > to be seen to do things right.
I just can't emphasize Thomas's point enough. I spent a lot of words trying to say what he was able to say in a single sentence. It isn't enough to get the right answer-- you have to be overtly seen to be getting the right answer via the right process. There are millions of us participating, and we want that number to be hundreds of millions or more. Not millions of viewers, millions of participants and 'shareholders'. That means that in some ways, we have to think more like a government than like a non-profit corporation. I cringe when I say that, because I know there ware a LOT of negative baggage that comes with that. But it's true. We're an organization that interacts with millions and millions of people in a way that has never before been possible in human history. That means we have to do things a little differently, sometimes, than a traditional nonprofit might. By and large, I think our leaders have done a marvelous job of adapting the structure of a "non-profit corporation" to meet our needs at the time. We just have to always remember that we don't just "publish a product", we aid a movement-- and that brings a very different set of challenges. :) We're learning, and there's also a widespread understanding that we need a "new openness" to spark more involvement. I predict a good year full of amazing innovation. Alec _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
